So this one is inspired by my SO, who decided to create a catfolk paladin of Shelyn for our upcoming Wrath of The Righteous game, and started looking into backstory to find... well... nothing. We could find nothing on where Catfolk come from or anything on their culture, beliefs or outlook. I originally thought they were from Tian Xia but after looking through Dragon Empires Gazetteer I could find no mention. Am I going crazy? Is there any info on this? Am I just looking in the wrong places?
So I went ahead and took it to the crowdsourcing that is the boards. Find me lore pieces my loyal minions... err... Good friends!
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Advanced Race Guide.
There from Southern Garund, and considering how little is said about that place, there isn't much said about Catfolk. Sorry, buddy, but there just isn't much to go on.
There is a population in Southern Tian Xia in the Valashamai Jungle (sp?)
Mythic realms mention they are descendents of one of many slave races that the Valashamai Empire gathered from across worlds and planes.
They (probably?) have a nation in Southern Garund as well.
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Their mommies and daddies?
There is a nation of catfolk in Southern Garund. We've not said much about them yet though.
Yet.
Do ya'll have it set yet when you'll reveal the other parts of the world? We have Casmaron, southern Garund, Vudra, Sarusan, and Arcadia still with little more than the blurbs in the ISWG.
Can always look to the leonin/nacatyl of Magic the Gathering. The former are a proud, warrior-culture that places bravery and honor above all things. The latter, I believe, are jungle-dwelling opportunists to some degree. They do what they must to survive, in small family/tribal groups.
The khajiit, from the Elder Scrolls universe, might be a good basis for Golarion's catfolk, as well.
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When a mommy catfolk and a daddy catfolk love each other very much they give each other a special hug ...
Wherever you want them to come from. Your game, your setup.
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There is a nation of catfolk in Southern Garund. We've not said much about them yet though.Yet.
Do ya'll have it set yet when you'll reveal the other parts of the world? We have Casmaron, southern Garund, Vudra, Sarusan, and Arcadia still with little more than the blurbs in the ISWG.
We certainly have a vague internal idea/schedule of when we want to go exploring other continents, as well as a vague order in which we want to explore them, but we've not revealed either yet publicly.
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There is a nation of catfolk in Southern Garund. We've not said much about them yet though.
No doubt, it has a very low percentage of ratfolk in the local population.
So can a Catfolk be a Werewolf?
I do wonder why they cannot be unlocked (via a boon) in the Pathfinder Society.
beyond Southern Garund you could probably just work with your DM to make something up.
My group's version of Golarion ended up with 2 breeds of them just because of the two different art styles of them. The more cat like ones with the full out Cat head come from the south and behave more like Lion Prides culturally while the more human looking ones come from the north and are more wandering gypsy sort of culture.
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I do wonder why they cannot be unlocked (via a boon) in the Pathfinder Society.
Because part of the Pathfinder Society campaign is the fact that the campaign is intended to represent the core races—Golarion is not a setting where a lot of unusual humanoid races hang out in Star Wars Cantina style.
So can a Catfolk be a Werewolf?Catfolk are humanoids, and therefore can be lycanthropes...
...but that's, storywise, a poor idea, since they're already animalistic looking. Lycanthropes are MUCH more interesting when they're humans or other close-to-human characters.
How about Werehuman?
I did mean that humorously, the cat that turns into a dog...
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Third Earth...
So can a Catfolk be a Werewolf?Catfolk are humanoids, and therefore can be lycanthropes...
...but that's, storywise, a poor idea, since they're already animalistic looking. Lycanthropes are MUCH more interesting when they're humans or other close-to-human characters.
How about Werehuman?
I did mean that humorously, the cat that turns into a dog...
I like the "werehuman" idea. It would make a intersting story where a fey curse turn animals to people. I think there was also a D&D edition that considered that both animals turning to humans and humans turning to animal were included in the lycanthopes.
I must mention that dogs seem to have been completly left behind in the folk-part. It must be a come-back feeling to me from RIFT but the absence of a form of Dog-Folk left a bit of bitterness to me...
But I did patch-up the stats of 1/2-orcs varients and changed the fluff to include it in my settings.
I still have to ask: why no dog-folk?
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All I know is they all have skooma addictions
When a man and a catgirl love each other very, very much....
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Catfolkornia, were the mice are easy to catch, were balls of yarn are on every corner, were saucers of milk are free, and were catnip is not illegal;)
Catfolkornia, were the mice are easy to catch, were balls of yarn are on every corner, were saucers of milk are free, and were catnip is not illegal;)
Where the streets are paved in scratching posts and yarn falls from the sky.
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And where Lantern Archons are kings by distracting everyone with their light rays.
Ok I will cut the discussion short and explain where catfolk are from.
It's ANIME!!!!! Really I am surprised that everyone just forgot that. But then again it's nice to solve a problem so fast. Now go outside and play and stay away from big balls of yarn and Mumra the ever living.
Mommy and Daddy Catfolk.
All I know is they all have skooma addictions
I declare that a libelous statement, sir!
So can a Catfolk be a Werewolf?Catfolk are humanoids, and therefore can be lycanthropes...
...but that's, storywise, a poor idea, since they're already animalistic looking. Lycanthropes are MUCH more interesting when they're humans or other close-to-human characters.
How about Werehuman?
I did mean that humorously, the cat that turns into a dog...
I like the "werehuman" idea. It would make a intersting story where a fey curse turn animals to people. I think there was also a D&D edition that considered that both animals turning to humans and humans turning to animal were included in the lycanthopes.
I must mention that dogs seem to have been completly left behind in the folk-part. It must be a come-back feeling to me from RIFT but the absence of a form of Dog-Folk left a bit of bitterness to me...
But I did patch-up the stats of 1/2-orcs varients and changed the fluff to include it in my settings.
I still have to ask: why no dog-folk?
Wolves are same species as dogs (Canis). Otherwise, why not tigerfolk, lionfolk, cheetahfolk, leopardfolk, margayfolk, ocelotfolk, ad nauseam? So...wolf folk if you include lycanthropes, but as a pc race consider Aasimar related to Agathions (of which there is a probably a subgroup similar to Lupinals (DnD) I don't have a bestiary, but I believe there is an equivalent.
They are from another dimension
No umbrella ears, doesn't hold up.
Wolves are same species as dogs (Canis). Otherwise, why not tigerfolk, lionfolk, cheetahfolk, leopardfolk, margayfolk, ocelotfolk, ad nauseam? So...wolf folk if you include lycanthropes, but as a pc race consider Aasimar related to Agathions (of which there is a probably a subgroup similar to Lupinals (DnD) I don't have a bestiary, but I believe there is an equivalent.
How much you wanna bet we'll have Lionfolk before long?
Third Earth...Thundera actually, they traveled to Third Earth...
S!@!, I got called out by my own GM ;)
S'ok, I was more of a He-Man watcher anyways :p
Ok I will cut the discussion short and explain where catfolk are from.
It's ANIME!!!!! Really I am surprised that everyone just forgot that. But then again it's nice to solve a problem so fast. Now go outside and play and stay away from big balls of yarn and Mumra the ever living.
Yeah, about that....
Catfolk in various guises haven't fully left Europe since the Greeks first saw some guys with mascara messing about with some pyramids and bandages in the desert.
I think it means someday we will get more info..."someday" could be quite a while from now.